Photography for Resilience: History, Technology, and Art of Daguerreotype
Contemporary Daguerreotypists Japan Committee hosts an international online symposium “Photography for Resilience: History, Technology, and Art of Daguerreotype” in conjunction with the exhibition “Care – Daguerreotype Today: In an Age of Uncertainty” to be held at PGI, Tokyo. The symposium aims to explore socio-historical aspects of the 19c daguerreotypy and contemporary iterations of the process. The committee invites speakers to reflect upon how we can inform and produce alternative understandings of our today’s relationship to historical imagery.
Date & Time: 8:00am -12:00pm (Japan) Oct 31 7:00pm-11pm (The eastern U.S.) Oct 30
Venue: Online
Fee: FREE
Recorded Presentations
Keynote Speech:
ROMER, Grant B., Former Senior Conservator, International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House (20min)
TAKAHASHI, Norihide, Professor, College of Art Department of Photography, Nihon University (20min)
Time Table
[16:00 -1 day (PST) | 19:00 -1 day (EST) | 00:00 (GMT) | 9:00 (AEST)]
Opening Address:
ARAI, Takashi
Artist, Filmmaker, Researcher at Tono Culture Research Center, Filmmaker
TAKAHASHI, Sayaka
Director at PGI
Chair: Prof. SATOW, Morihiro
Professor, Faculty of Letters Department of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts, Doshisha University
[16:10 -1 day (PST) | 19:10 -1 day (EST) | 00:10 (GMT) | 09:10 (AEST)]
Dr. ROBINSON, Mike “The Techniques and Material Aesthetics of the Daguerreotype”
Daguerreotypist
Q&A
[16:40 -1 day (PST) | 19:40 -1 day (EST) | 00:40 (GMT) | 09:40 (AEST)]
ANDO, Chihoko “The beginning of Japanese photography through the practice of the daguerreotype portrait of the feudal lord Shimadzu Nariakira”
PhD Candidate at Kyoto Institute of Technology
Q&A
[17:10 -1 day (PST) | 20:10 -1 day (EST) | 01:10 (GMT) | 10:10 (AEST)]
[10min Break]
[17:20-1 day (PST) | 20:20 -1 day (EST) | 01:20 (GMT) | 10:20 (AEST)]
JACOB, John P “Introducing the Larry J. West Collection at the Smithsonian American Art Museum”
McEvoy Family Curator for Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Q&A
[17:50-1 day (PST) | 20:50 -1 day (EST) | 01:50 (GMT) | 10:50 (AEST)]
HAVINGA, Anne E. “Daguerreotypes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: History, Memory, Concern”
Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Chair of Photography
Q&A
[18:20 -1 day (PST) | 21:20 -1 day (EST) | 02:20 (GMT) | 11:20 (AEST)]
Intermission [15min Break]
10:35
[18:35 -1 day (PST) | 21:35 -1 day (EST) | 02:35 (GMT) | 11:35 (AEST)]
– Prof. MUKHERJEE, Arpan (Associate Professor at Visva-Bharati University) & BAHUKHANDI, Mrinal (Writer, Filmmaker, Photographer) “Pixels From The Past – 19th Century Daguerreotypes in 3rd Millennium India” (Talk, 5min)
– SABOGAL, Camilo (Photographer) “From Bogotá through the Looking Glass” (Talk, 5min)
Chair: Prof. SATOW, Morihiro
Professor, Faculty of Letters Department of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts, Doshisha University
Discussant: Prof. AOYAMA, Masaru
Professor at Osaka University of Arts
[18:50 -1 day (PST) | 21:50 -1 day (EST) | 02:50 (GMT) | 11:50 (AEST)]
Panel Discussion “Care – Daguerreotype Today: In an Age of Uncertainty”
Panel:
FUSS, Adam (Artist)
DANH, Binh (Artist)
SPAGNOLI, Jerry (Artist)
TUFFIN, Craig (Artist)
ARAI, Takashi (Artist, Filmmaker, Researcher at Tono Culture Research Center)
Q&A
[20:00 -1 day (PST) | 23:00 -1 day (EST) | 04:00 (GMT) | 13:00 (AEST)]
Closing Address:
ARAI, Takashi
Artist, Filmmaker, Researcher at Tono Culture Research Center, Filmmaker
Supported by:
POLA Art Foundation
Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Nomura Foundation